If you love it, you’ll make the time. It will be a priority in your life. You won’t worry about how to do it, you just will.

It sounds so easy.

Spoiler alert: It’s not.

For those of us who have work and home lives…how are you supposed to even try to make the time?

You’re trying to stay hydrated, exercise, eat right, get enough sleep, make the money it takes to survive, and spend time with your loved ones. Where are your passions supposed to fit into that schedule?

It’s frustrating advice that I think could leave us more discouraged than pumped up.

**leans in close but not in a creepy way**

I think I’ve found the magical time in your schedule to fit in your book baby—or whatever else your passion might be. Are you ready for this?

I love making aesthetics for what I’m writing! They’re a fun, visual representation of bits and pieces of your story. You could make one for the overall tone, a specific character, a place…the possibilities are endless.

Even when we aren’t sitting down in front of a computer/pen and paper, we’re daydreaming; planning out the next big fight scene; trying to decide on the perfect name for that super minor character who will only ever show up in one scene but still has to have a perfect name.

So here are a few things that you can do (still away from that screen/paper!) that will keep your creative juices flowing. They might even help you stumble on the answer to one of your biggest writing-related questions.